the Obama administration prepared for a possible military response by moving naval forces closer to Syria.

Obama discussed the situation in Syria by telephone with British Prime Minister David Cameron, the White House said. It was Obama's first known conversation with a foreign leader about Syria since the reports this week that hundreds of Syrians had been killed by the alleged chemical attack in a suburb of Damascus, the capital.

For the first time in my life my heart desires to participate in an anti-war rally. But where are all the peaceniks that usually organize these things? Obama must have rounded them all up and shipped them off to colorado to get high for the duration of that US-Syrian war.

Is it just me or did the “Arab Spring” pretty much come to a screeching halt once the bodies started piling up in Syria? I think the citizens in other countries might have decided that turning their towns into rubble and dying under the treads of tanks doesn’t sound as appealing as it did a few years ago.

Maybe Obama thinks he can get it started again with a fresh infusion of American blood.

Some US ships will be lost to the supersonic anti-ship missiles that Syria has. They are wicked and countermeasures are iffy if many are launched at a ship at the same time.
The Russians made a good system when they made the Yakhont.
They are powered by a kerosine burning ramjet and travel at about 1800mph. Range is 300km+ They are in Latakia and possibly aboard some ships.

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posted on 08/24/2013 7:21:55 PM PDT
by Bobalu
(It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)

Back in the late Fifties during the war game scenarios often acted out by our military and intelligence people, an incident like you describe in your first sentence always led to a nuclear exchange that unfolded either immediately or incrementally over a two week period.

This message came to me concerning Damascus: Look, Damascus will disappear! It will become a heap of ruins. The cities of Aroer will be deserted. Sheep will graze in the streets and lie down unafraid. There will be no one to chase them away. The fortified cities of Israel will also be destroyed, and the power of Damascus will end. The few left in Aram will share the fate of Israels departed glory, says the Lord Almighty. Isaiah 17:1-3 (NLT)

This war was not planned 12 years ago. It might have been war gamed..but not planned. How do I know? Because any plan to remove Syria would not have consisted on setting the whole region on fire first...like Obama has done. We would not have put the Muslim Brotherhood and AQ in power in Egypt and Libya first. We would not have armed a bunch of Islamist terrorists and sent them in to Syria first where they could lay in wait for our own troops. It is insanity to think that Obama is following some predetermined goal made 12 years ago under the Bush administration.

It makes no sense, unless our goal is to lose the war.

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posted on 08/24/2013 7:39:59 PM PDT
by penelopesire
(TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)

However, at the time I thought to myself that after Iraq, Syria would be next and then Iran would all fall like dominoes although it would be a very slow process. It is much slower than I had anticipated.

I am not agreeing with Deathtomarxists nor disagreeing with you. I’m simply stating what went through my mind in 2003.

I’m certainly 100% against getting involved in Syria, but I’m not about to share any of my ‘protest’ space with any grubby, dopehead hippie scum. They’re the Obama-voting idiots that helped turn this country into such a tyrannical cesspool. I’d just as soon ship them off to Syria to meet up with those “rebel” al-Qaeda jihadists that Obama so lovingly supports. And then see how many of them manage to get back with their heads still attached.

“This war was preplanned 12 years ago.
Please post a source for this important information.”

certainly everything that happens in this world had been planned for years. you just need to ask, why wouldn’t it be? that is the nature of the human race. its been true throughout history. the wealthy and the intellectuals have a need to impose their will on others.

especially after ww2, when it was said never again, people have been designing a world of control of the masses.
if you look at world events in the last 60 years, they fit that model.

Im certainly 100% against getting involved in Syria, but Im not about to share any of my protest space with any grubby, dopehead hippie scum. Theyre the Obama-voting idiots that helped turn this country into such a tyrannical cesspool. Id just as soon ship them off to Syria to meet up with those rebel al-Qaeda jihadists that Obama so lovingly supports. And then see how many of them manage to get back with their heads still attached.

Good post. Find the side in the Middle East that hates the Christians/Jews the most and that seems to be the side Obama consistently supports.

Somebody please explain to me why we would send troops into a country led by a dictator who is no friend of the U.S. and is fighting against a group of Islamic terrorists who killed 3,000 innocent Americans on 9/11/2001?

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posted on 08/24/2013 8:18:07 PM PDT
by immadashell
(The inmates are running the asylum.)

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